wiring help!

[soul05 10+ year member]

im completely noob to this, but i wired my car yesterday. i unhooked the neg terminal first and then proceeded with hooking up the positive terminal to a fuse i bought with my 4 gauge knukonceptz amp kit. then i ran that wire through my firewall and into my car. it ended up in my trunk, where my amp is located. then i ran my signal cables from my head unit through the other side of my car, including the remote turn on wire. it then ended up in my trunk. then i plugged the positive terminal into my amp, i plugged in the ground and connected it to a bolt next to my spare tire. then i plugged in my cables from my hu, and my remote turn on cables. turned on my car to see if i would get power...and wooo...no power. is there something that i am doing wrong?

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[Wowimzz 10+ year member]

hmm.. check to make sure your fuse is good,and check your connections. make sure everything is good and secure, and that your ground is on BARE metal. is everything brand new? or did you buy it used? if you bought it used, you may have bought a smoked amp.

what is your setup?

sub(s), amp, h/u? how are your subs wired to the amp?

 

[soul05 10+ year member]

everything i bought was brand new. i checked the power cable many times, as well as the ground cable.

my setup is an idq12, profile ap1000m and an alpine hu. ive tried grounding it to several different locations within my trunk, and it was still no good.

 

[404 10+ year member]

Def. check the ground and fuses, then bust out a DMM on the + and - wires going to the amp and see what you are reading..

 

[bonesninja 5,000+ posts]

its probably your remote turn on wire.....if you have it hooked up to your headunits remote wire--blue or blue/white i think--, try unhooking from your headunit and connect it to the same wire --red i think--that your headunit's ignition controlled source is wired to.

 

[404 10+ year member]

Red? I think its blue- maybe with a white stripe

edit: nvm.. yeah you could try that but I think they both only come on when the ignition is turned

 

[bonesninja 5,000+ posts]

reread---i editted it. i'm positive now thats your problem

 

[Decipha 10+ year member]

take a piece of wire and jump from the battery + to the remote turn on lead, if the amp powers up then their is a problem with the remote wire

simple as that

 

[smd4life 5,000+ posts]

take a little piece of speaker wire and run it from the 12v terminal on the amp to the remote terminal, if it comes on, its your remote wire thats bad/disconected somewhere

 

[Decipha 10+ year member]

4 minutes ahead of ya buddy... good try tho better luck next time

 

[bonesninja 5,000+ posts]

and i had his issue figured out 3 minutes before you.....good try tho

 

[soul05 10+ year member]

haha, ok i will try that right now and let u guys know whats up

 

[soul05 10+ year member]

it worked, but now my amp seems to be on all the time. wont that drain my battery?

 

[bonesninja 5,000+ posts]

you got it hooked up to a constant source....you need to hook your blue remote wire from the amps to an ignition controlled source.....like the red wire behind your headunit... if you just used a little jumper from your amp power wire to the remote terminal on the amp then you need to take that off.

 

[soul05 10+ year member]

everything works now, but i get a turn on thump. is there any way to get rid of that?